I've been doing copywriting this past year to support myself in southeast Asia, and I've had a few gigs.

However I sometimes have trouble because many companies would rather hire Indians.

Many companies would rather hire Indians for writing instead of native English speakers because Indians are prepared to write, for example, 500 words for $1.

When I go to elance (or a similiar site) there are always large numbers of Indians competing for the same gig.

I'm quite capable of doing the job and I know I can help people sell their product, but they're never interested. They don't want to hear advice on changes they can make for their webpages to increase conversions and ways to improve their site content...all they want to do is pay an Indian one dollar to write 500 words and leave it at that.

Voice of Reason wrote:I've been doing copywriting this past year to support myself in southeast Asia, and I've had a few gigs.

However I sometimes have trouble because many companies would rather hire Indians.

Many companies would rather hire Indians for writing instead of native English speakers because Indians are prepared to write, for example, 500 words for $1.

When I go to elance (or a similiar site) there are always large numbers of Indians competing for the same gig.

I'm quite capable of doing the job and I know I can help people sell their product, but they're never interested. They don't want to hear advice on changes they can make for their webpages to increase conversions and ways to improve their site content...all they want to do is pay an Indian one dollar to write 500 words and leave it at that.

Market yourself as one who fixes copy writing done by Indians that were hired for 500 words per dollar.